Why is the SGC Pop Report Getting Ignored?

[mordecaibrown1]

I always as well use & check the SGC pop reports

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by trib01

When I interviewed with SGC some time ago for a management position this is one of the many items I brought up to them. As someone who used them regularly I was surprised at their reactions to the question of "What suggestions would I make or what would I do if given the authority?"
I think they failed to realize the importance of the POP reports and registry at the time. Several of my answers were met with laughter from the group. Since I knew I wasn't getting the job at that point - I told them that if they failed to "keep up" PSA would end up buying them out in 5 or 6 years....that was met with a great deal of laughter. We all know how that turned out. I still think today that had they made some critical decisions not long ago they would have been much closer to PSA in several areas. Just my two cents.

To your point I think PSA bought them defensively to prevent Fanatics from doing so. If Fanatics had bought them SGC would've ceased to be more of a clubhouse than a company. I love SGC, but the breadth of bad business decisions is staggering.

[Vintagedeputy]

Population reports are inherently flawed and wholly inaccurate. When you’re keeping any type of data like that, the data keeper has to be someone solely responsible for ensuring the integrity of the data. Unfortunately, with millions of slabs out there, every time someone takes a slab and cracks it out and resubmits, that label is not being removed from a database and replaced by the new label. Ever since the first time someone cracked one out, these reports have been useless.